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...letter in boxing last year and in his bouts this season has won two and lost one. He fights in the 165-pound class. In the Dartmouth match he won his bout by a decision, and did the same when fighting against a New Hampshire pugilist. He was defeated by Bubb of Yale last Saturday...
University grapplers will attempt their third straight victory over Yale matmen this afternoon at 5.30 o'clock in the New Indoor Athletic Building. Gridley Barrows will open the meet at 4 o'clock with his bout against Captain Rotan of Yale, Eastern Intercollegiate champion. Following this bout, the Freshman grapplers will go on the mat, to be followed in turn by the University wrestlers...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...
When Dempsey last summer announced that he would undertake a series of exhibition bouts to recondition himself for an attempt to regain his title, no one knew exactly what he meant. Skeptics surmised that he had no intention of ever fighting heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, but mentioned the possibility to increase crowds at his exhibition bouts. After the Levinsky bout, Dempsey was careful, honestly or otherwise, to preserve the uncertainty about his future. Said he: "I know I looked bad last night but I expect to have to take a little the worst of it as I go along...
Throughout both University and first year eliminations, the regular team members had little difficulty in holding their own against other aspirants. P. O. Johnson '33, University star last year, has returned to the team and will occupy the 145-pound class in his first bout of the year against the midshipmen. J. H. Crandon '33, who wrestled against Chicago in the last meet, was unable to get his weight down to the 135-pound class, in which he wrestled last season...